On Wednesday 2 October, the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs rejected by a large majority (34 votes against, 18 in favour, 4 abstentions), the draft report by Esther de Lange (EPP, Netherlands) on the economic policy of the euro area in 2019, a report that was supposed to guide the European Commission's work on the budget process for the “European Semester” for 2020.
The vote on the compromise amendments from the EPP and ECR groups and the alternative...